Anne Elizabeth Moore talks about how her experiences in self-publishing in America informed her work in Cambodia when bringing the Riot Grrrl model to women who were performing an act of rebellion by publishing.

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In Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in Phnom Penh, cultural critic and artist Anne Elizabeth Moore brings her experience in the American cultural underground to Cambodia, a country known mostly for the savage extermination of around 2 million of its own under the four-year reign of the Khmer Rouge. Over four years, Moore transfers self-publishing knowledge and tools to her charges, women from rural areas who are now at university (a feat in Cambodia where women's education is undervalued). Moore will be talking about her experience at Sass Fest, a DIY craft fair hosted by Calvin College's (106) Gallery (106 S. Division) at 6:00pm next Saturday, but phones in from Chicago to give us a preview. Moore's talk at Sass Fest is presented by the Division Avenue Arts Collective

Whether in harmony or tragedy, North Korea curates media's experienceIn the last several years, North Korea has slowly opened itself up to the world media. However, even though it now invites media to the country, photojournalists have found the experience to be highly curated and restricted. Charlie Crane and Damir Sagolj were each in North Korea at different times, one in 2007 and another in 2011. Crane was only allowed to photograph a North Korea that the government wanted to convey while Sagolj was part of a corps of journalists invited in to emphasize the need for world aid as North Korea is more direly confronted with its population's malnutrition. Says Sagolj, "one can argue about the freedom of press, but rules are rules in different places. If you don’t follow them, there will be no pictures and no witness report."[More: The Lens, Behance Network]

Children's books published during Soviet Era on displayIn a faculty-led curation of a new exhibit space at the University of Chicago, curators are bringing 400 children's books to the forefront. More specifically, children's books from the Soviet era that capture the mental shift from one government to the next and from one generation to the other.[More: University of Chicago Magazine]

Bibliodyssey introduces contemporary audience to encyclopedic artBibliodyssey is a blog that publishes pages from encyclopedias, scientific journals of yore and obscure and older texts around a theme for each post. Some of the posts are drawn from books published throughout the last two millenia. The illustrations range from wood block engravings to watercolors and graphite with descriptions of the artists' influences and styles.[More: Bibliodyssey]

Members of The Society of Professional Journalists have agreed not to use "illegal alien" as a termAt the Excellence in Journalism conference, the annual conference of the 7,800-member Society of Professional Journalists, a resolution was passed not to use the term "illegal alien" anymore, and with serious recommendations to rethink the term "illegal immigrant" as well. The resolution was drafted by SPJ's diversity committee and has also been a fight that the National Association of Hispanic Journalists began in the mid-1990s. Their next target: the AP Stylebook.[More: Color Lines]

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Exhibit opening at the Public MuseumSaturday, Nov. 12 at the Public Museum (272 Pearl NW)With such a big collection, The Public Museum is only able to exhibit about 10% of its holdings at a time. This exhibit dusts off some of patrons' favorite items over the years and puts them on display.[More]

Michigan Film, Art and Literature SymposiumNov. 12-13 at the GRAMThis symposium brings together scholars, artists and community leaders from around Michigan to identify and understanding the Michigan perspective in creative expression. A significant component to the discussion is defining the region from within the Michigan community along with an awareness of how others perceive and represent it.[More]

Screening of A People's Project of the LGBTQ Community in Grand Rapids6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 17 at GVSU's Loosemore Auditorium downtownA People's Project is the documentation of the history of the LGBTQ movement in West Michiganthat has been produced as a documentary film and as an online archive of material about the struggle for equality and justice by the local LGBTQ community.[More]

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